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    Aquatic insects or water insects live some portion of their life cycle in the water. They feed in the same ways as other insects. Some diving insects...
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    Plecoptera (category Aquatic insects)
    Plecoptera is an order of insects, commonly known as stoneflies. Some 3,500 species are described worldwide, with new species still being discovered. Stoneflies...
    12 KB (1,286 words) - 22:34, 4 July 2024
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    Water-penny beetle (category Aquatic insects)
    Curculionoidea, Volume 2. Pages 133-134. Usinger, Robert, L., 1956, Aquatic Insects of California, p. 365. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Psephenidae...
    5 KB (445 words) - 04:56, 12 August 2023
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    Water beetle (category Aquatic insects)
    (Water-penny beetles) Ptilodactylidae Torridincolidae Sphaeriusidae Aquatic insects "Water Beetle: pictures, information, classification and more". www...
    4 KB (385 words) - 18:55, 17 March 2024
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    Helotrephidae (category Aquatic insects)
    Helotrephidae is a family of aquatic bugs found mainly in the tropical regions with many species in the Oriental Realm and a few from Africa, Madagascar...
    3 KB (281 words) - 03:47, 26 June 2021
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    Odonata (category Aquatic insects)
    most often seen near bodies of water and are frequently described as aquatic insects. However, many species range far from water. They are carnivorous (or...
    26 KB (2,707 words) - 20:26, 14 July 2024
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    Rat-tailed maggot (category Aquatic insects)
    Rat-tailed maggots are the larvae of certain species of hoverflies belonging to the tribes Eristalini and Sericomyiini. A characteristic feature of rat-tailed...
    4 KB (418 words) - 20:55, 30 July 2024
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    Whirligig beetle (category Aquatic insects)
    The whirligig beetles are water beetles, comprising the family Gyrinidae that usually swim on the surface of the water if undisturbed, though they swim...
    16 KB (1,684 words) - 09:41, 26 January 2024
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    Dytiscidae (category Aquatic insects)
    intraspecific variation in flight-related morphological traits of aquatic insects at different landscape scales". Insect Conservation and Diversity....
    33 KB (2,995 words) - 04:13, 19 June 2024
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    Notonectidae is a cosmopolitan family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly called backswimmers because they swim "upside down" (inverted)...
    6 KB (624 words) - 12:40, 5 June 2024
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    Mayfly (category Aquatic insects)
    Great Lakes region, and as up-winged flies in the United Kingdom) are aquatic insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera. This order is part of an ancient...
    72 KB (7,596 words) - 14:15, 18 August 2024
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    relationships – for example, night-active primates, fruit trees, or aquatic insects. As such, these characteristic features of a polyphyletic grouping...
    11 KB (1,053 words) - 18:34, 14 May 2024
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    hence the group name, and long thin bills. Stilts typically feed on aquatic insects and other small creatures and nest on the ground surface in loose colonies...
    4 KB (342 words) - 12:41, 1 January 2024
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    for gills (from Ancient Greek βράγχια). With the exception of some aquatic insects, the filaments and lamellae (folds) contain blood or coelomic fluid...
    21 KB (2,659 words) - 19:14, 14 August 2024
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    Stenoperla prasina (category Aquatic insects)
    indicator of water quality. The larvae eat plant detritus and other aquatic insects while the adult insects feed on sooty mould fungi as well as other...
    9 KB (1,443 words) - 07:51, 27 September 2023
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    Alderfly (category Aquatic insects)
    Alderflies are megalopteran insects of the family Sialidae. They are closely related to the dobsonflies and fishflies as well as to the prehistoric Euchauliodidae...
    13 KB (1,117 words) - 03:11, 28 January 2024
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    Caddisfly (category Aquatic insects)
    factor to their success and why they are the most species-rich order of aquatic insects. About 14,500 species of caddisfly in 45 families have been recognised...
    36 KB (3,922 words) - 14:21, 20 August 2024
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    Dobsonfly (category Aquatic insects)
    Dobsonflies are a subfamily of insects, Corydalinae, part of the Megalopteran family Corydalidae. The larvae (commonly called hellgrammites) are aquatic...
    16 KB (2,049 words) - 12:28, 30 June 2024
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    forms of angling). In general, artificial flies are an imitation of aquatic insects that are natural food of the target fish species the fly fishers try...
    30 KB (3,524 words) - 09:25, 30 May 2024
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    caterpillars) have some form of appendages, such as prolegs or, in aquatic insects, gills. In apocritan Hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants), the metasoma...
    3 KB (331 words) - 05:42, 1 May 2024
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